Domains Discussion

From doing these activities students will

Compare and contrast the domains they picked with classmates
Agree on the next level of detail for the DSL evaluation criteria

In class Announcements - 5 min (9:00 ~ 9:05)

Warm-up activity

As you enter, put your name and the domain you wrote prose about on the blackboard. We will use this for selecting groups

Groups and Roles

Scribes

Take notes for your group to contribute to the wiki page for the discussion
A head scribe will go and write a summary on that page for an extra credit point

Managers

Keep track of time
Make a role ticket on the Reading repo for everyone in your group

Ambassadors

Presents the unified thoughts of their group
Talks with instructors at the end about meta class management

Small group discussion - 30 min (9:05 ~ 9:35)

Looking ahead, the next writing assignment will be a one-page proposal for a DSL. To decide how to evaluate these proposals and define what they should include, we will be updating the DSL Design Questions to include details and examples in the large group discussion.

During this small group discussion, please go over the domains you wrote prose about for homework with each other. Help each other get specific about what "kind" of programs are and are not in those domains, respectively.

Before we reconvene for the large group discussion, please have a list of either modifications or elaborations to the DSL Design Questions that will help capture what challenges you anticipate your language will need to provide and address. E.g. provide examples in DSLs we've seen or other you might know that illustrate the design questions. Feel free to invent new design questions as this is not necessarily a complete list.

Large group discussion - 30min (9:35 ~ 10:05)

We will live update the DSL Design Questions wiki page with the results of the discussion. Also, we can answer any questions about what the proposal will have.

Cool-down activity - 10 min (10:05 ~ 10:15)

All scribes will get together to start their wiki write up to be finished at latest a week from today.

All managers will get together and make tickets for the course. This can include the tickets from their group discussions as mentioned above, a ticket to follow up on the scribe write up, and any other issues they think will be helpful.

All ambassadors will get together with Matthew and discuss how they think the day went, how they think the pacing went, what they are looking forward to, any worries they might have about the class, etc.